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Saturday, July 26, 2003

1:00 p.m.

okay, after writing that last post, i had to change cds. and it's not that all the songs on that cd are bad... it's just the combination of them together that makes for a truly "what the hell am i listening to?" experience.

anyway, now i'm listening to a cd by an australian band called the cruel sea. my friend jason sent it me a little over a year ago, and it's really good. and since i am apparently all about australia love in my blog today... i'll talk a little bit about jason and the fun things we send to each other in the mail.

see, jason is from perth, western australia (though now he's in some mining town where he can get these really classy beer holders depicting humping kangaroos) and last february, he was complaining about his girlfriend playing the macy gray song "i try" over and over and over again. so i told him i was going to make him a cd... and about a week later, i shipped off a package containing "jason's mystery mix" which consisted of "i try" 19 times. since that time, we've been sending things back & forth. he almost always sends me nicer things than i send him... like this cruel sea cd or the books about jesus by australian writer andrew masterson, which are absolutely hilarious.

about a month ago, i sent him a package with my copy of house of leaves and a poe cd in it, and in return, i got christmas in july with a huge envelope containing the aforementioned beer holder, a coffee cup, a keychain, a mousepad (with a monster truck on it), postcards and pictures. so to be nice, i sent him a copy of a beverly hills 90210 book. you know, so he'd have something to read after finishing house of leaves.

it's a bizarre kind of fun, but i enjoy our correspondence. and on top of everything, jason is an ace letter writer. it's nice to know someone who writes great letters.

speaking of fun mail... i just got a package from israel. it contains two handmade collections of poetry by a great lady and incredible poet named judih. (you can check out some of judih's work by popping over to the swiss poem account collection.)

hurrah!





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